The Cambridge history of the native peoples of the Americas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trigger, Bruce G.

Washburn, Wilcomb E.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--History.

Indians of North America.

History.

Eskimos--History.

Eskimos.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996-

Summary:

This volume, published in two parts, provides the first comprehensive history of the Native peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present. It describes how indigenous peoples have dealt with the environmental diversity of North American and have responded to the different European colonial regimes and national governments that have established themselves in recent centuries. It also examines the development of a pan-Indian identity since the nineteenth century and provides a comparison not found in other histories of how native peoples have fared in Canada and the United States.

Contents:

v. 1. North America, pt. 1-2 / edited by Bruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn

v. 2. Mesoamerica, pt. 1-2

v. 3. South America, pt. 1-2 / edited by Frank Salomon, Stuart B. Schwartz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0521573920

0521573939

OCLC:

33359444